All primary schools will be equipped to identify their own high-ability pupils.
SINGAPORE – After 40 years, the Gifted Education Programme , which caters to the top 1 per cent of primary school pupils, will be discontinued in its current form and replaced with an updated approach to benefit more children.
This will replace the current system, where Primary 3 pupils are selected from schools across the country for a centralised programmeThe updated programme will see pupils stay in their own primary schools, where they can remain with friends and teachers whom they have bonded with, PM Wong said. Beyond the school-based programmes, there will be some who can benefit from even further stretching in particular subjects, he said.
Its curriculum covers the same content areas as those in the mainstream, but is extended in breadth and depth. GEP students learn skills for independent inquiry and are encouraged to do explorations on self-selected areas of interest.
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